alt Hacker NewsThere's also the other side of it, poisoning the AIs... https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/moscow-based-g...
"Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda."
in 2024.. hopefully filters when training have gotten better, but maybe not..
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Those Russian propagandists. Lucky the US doesn't engage in propaganda.
I wonder how much Russian propaganda worked its way into western academia over the 20th century? Very similar.
(I do find it interesting, btw, that a few seconds after post this did get an immediate downvote to 0 - it didn't last, but it makes me wonder if there are bots monitoring the HN firehose for anything critical of country X)
What about other hostile propaganda? Do you think the completely deranged, self-serving, lying, dangerous shit that regularly comes out of DC is being incorporated in those training materials?
This regime and its enablers have done more quantifiable harm to more people and institutions in America than anything Russia has, and one of its favorite tools is propaganda.
AI companies: stealing data everywhere to feed their models, paying no one for it.
Also AI companies: oh no, You’ve poisoned our models with your data!